Navigating the 2024 holiday season: Insights into Azure’s DDoS defense

By Dustin Ward

The 2024 holiday season revealed a complex and evolving threat landscape for Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. This year’s trends included advanced tactics such as an increase in DDoS-for-hire operations, the assembly of massive DDoS botnets by script kiddies, politically motivated attack campaigns, and the bypass of CDN (Content Delivery Network) protections among other evolving threats.…

6 insights to make your data AI-ready, with Accenture’s Teresa Tung

By Dustin Ward

AI success depends on multiple factors, but the key to innovation is the quality and accessibility of an organization’s proprietary data.  I sat down with Teresa Tung to discuss the opportunities of proprietary data and why it is so critical to value creation with AI. Tung is a researcher whose work spans breakthrough cloud technologies,…

Developer insights: Building resilient end-to-end security

By Dustin Ward

Cybersecurity is more than just a technical requirement for any organization; it’s essential for survival. Like the delicate balance of a coral reef, our digital ecosystems must adapt and strengthen to withstand evolving threats. Corals face threats like bleaching from temperature changes, pollution, and disease. Similarly, digital ecosystems battle sophisticated cyberattacks, ransomware, and evolving malware.…

Microsoft Trustworthy AI: Unlocking human potential starts with trust   

By Dustin Ward

As AI advances, we all have a role to play to unlock AI’s positive impact for organizations and communities around the world. That’s why we’re focused on helping customers use and build AI that is trustworthy, meaning AI that is secure, safe and private. At Microsoft, we have commitments to ensure Trustworthy AI and are building industry-leading supporting technology. Our…